Speaking in a third unauthorised public appearance on Sunday night, the controversial SABC employee Hlaudi Motsoeneng slammed "clever blacks" for criticising president Jacob Zuma.
On Sunday night the suspended Hlaudi Motsoeneng who
confirmed that "I'm still an employee of the SABC" did an interview on the
Gupta-owned ANN7 TV news channel on DStv, a few days after his own press
conference on Wednesday that he followed up with an interview on Thursday on
the eNCA news channel.
After the SABC interim chairperson Khanyisile
Kweyama said on Friday that Hlaudi Motsoeneng – who is awaiting another disciplinary
hearing – isn't allowed to speak publicly as an SABC employee, he went and
ramped up his public statements on Sunday night by making political statements
and again slammed the SABC board member Krish Naidoo as a liar.
Hlaudi Motsoeneng spoke on ANN7's Straight Talk
programme where interviewer Sifiso Mahlangu lobbed several-softball questions
to Hlaudi Motsoeneng during the half-hour ANN7 show.
"The DA represents liberals. You can't run
away from that point of view. They just have face when you look at Maimane,
Mmusi Maimaine, just the face there. This people are using him," said Hlaudi Motsoeneng.
"I'm always surprise that a black person –
when you have many, many, many, many white people who [you] don't see media
running after white people. But we see media and the DA running after black
people."
"If you can check, people are not just
attacking Hlaudi. They're attacking all those people who have been doing very
well, like Brian Molefe, like [Tom] Moyane, Sars commissioner, and many, many
people they have been attacking them, that I think they’re radical, they know
what they do. They know what South Africans want."
Hlaudi Motsoeneng said "you can see there’s many
opportunists within the SABC, especially people who are disgruntled, people who
are not supporting transformation within that organisation, who went and lied
during the ad hoc committee".
Hlaudi Motsoeneng again slammed SABC board member Krish
Naidoo and claimed Naidoo lied during parliament’sad hoc committee
investigation into maladministration and corruption at the SABC.
Hlaudi Motsoeneng said "we live in a democratical
society" and that "for the first time in history, all of them in parliament,
they collude, all of them, under the name of Hlaudi" to get rid of him.
Hlaudi Motsoeneng also attacked the former SABC
journalist and contributing editor Vuyo Mvoko, now working for eNCA, and who
was fired as one of the so-called "SABC8" when they protested SABC censorship
during 2016.
"I don't know what Vuyo Mvoko knows. Remember
Vuyo Mvoko was working for the Guptas himself, so I don't know what happened
between him and the Guptas."
Claim: DStv pays for whole SABC newsroom
Hlaudi Motsoeneng made a new revelation
during the Sunday evening interview, addressing the SABC's controversial
contract with MultiChoice in which the public broadcaster supplies the SABC
News and SABC Encore TV channels to DStv.
He claimed that the commercial pay-TV company
is paying for the public broadcaster's entire news operation.
"I have been saying, the money that we are
getting from MultiChoice, it pays the operations of the SABC – the whole
newsroom, not for DStv 404 channel."
"If you cancel that contract, which means
people are going to be unemployed."
'Media believes black people can’t rule'
"The reason why media attack government is
because they still believe that black people can't rule. It's a pity that you
have so-called clever blacks who are also joining to criticise, especially some
of the leaders in this country – president Zuma is one of them," said Hlaudi
Motsoeneng.
"President Zuma is under attack. And why he's
under attack, is because he's talking about radical transformation. So when you
touch those issues, you touch the real nerves of some of people who don’t want
that change to happen".
"The problem is not white people in South
Africa. It's not white people. They are powerless. We are in charge as black
people. We must implement what we need to implement in South Africa."
Hlaudi Motsoeneng said: "We are not saying chase
away the white people. They are part of us, we are part of them. But they shall
understand there must be equity among all of us."
The cake should be shared
Hlaudi Motsoeneng said he asked SABC cleaners why
they want to work for other people.
He wanted to empower the cleaners so that
they own their own company. "I said the cake should be shared, not just these
big companies."
Addressing the situation of the SABC being on
the verge of financial collapse needing another billion rand bail-out from
government, he said "the reason why the SABC were having all this repeats [on
TV], some of them they were just happy to have R1.4 billion in the bank."
"I asked them you have R1.4 billion in the
bank, but you are not empowering black people."
"South Africans they are very crazy when it
comes to Hlaudi, so I know, that really I'm in demand. I don't have a problem.
But I have been saying to people I'm going to enjoy myself in that disciplinary
hearing, because I enjoy everything that I do. Whether it is dismissal, I will
enjoy it."
